From Inside Scoop: San Francisco seafood purveyor TwoXSea, which supplies sustainable seafood to restaurants and markets around the Bay Area, just settled on the location of its first new location, in NW Portland. Last week owner Kenny Belov signed a lease on a warehouse space near the Pearl District. After a quick build-out, he hopes […]
Outsiders have a hard time categorizing the San Francisco neighborhood at the foot of Bernal Hill at Mission Street, but most locals are firm that this area — which has also been playfully and controversially called La Lengua (The Tongue) because of its flat, elongated shape — is part of Bernal Heights. Regardless, the restaurants, […]
Farmers’ markets are loaded with peaches and other stone fruit from up and down the state. Don’t wait around this year, however, because the season is a full two weeks early. While the drought is hurting many stone fruit farmers, who are seeing both smaller harvests and smaller fruit, the early season is happening because […]
It’s a science experiment I remember dearly from childhood. Poke an avocado pit with toothpicks, suspend it in a jar of water and wait for it to sprout. I don’t think I ever actually followed through and planted the seed in the backyard; it was more about witnessing life at its earliest stages. These days, […]
As a society, the amount of food we toss out is shocking. From farm to fridge, 40 percent of the food in the United States is wasted. Meanwhile, 1 in 6 Americans faces hunger. But there’s yet another connection to food waste: California’s current drought. When 80 percent of our water goes to agriculture, wasting […]
Most people don’t consider becoming a certified sommelier a prerequisite to opening a coffee shop. But that’s what Ariana Akbar did before she opened Hearth Coffee Roasters in the Castro neighborhood with her husband, James Kafader; the couple previously owned Brown Owl Coffee on Taraval Street. Instead of a wine-focused cafe, Akbar wanted to use […]
In the supermarket produce section, carrots are perfect orange cylinders. Apples are unblemished, and asparagus spears are as uniformly thick as a box of children’s markers. Yet, in nature, carrots don’t always grow straight, apples can get sunburnt markings and asparagus comes in all sizes. Millions of pounds of this produce gets tossed out every […]
Despite all the noise out there in the gluten-free and paleo worlds, pizza night is still sacrosanct at our house. Click here for recipe. Once a month or so, we make a batch of dough, crank up the oven and put out all the components for Friday or Saturday pizza-making. The toppings are a mix […]
Everybody loved Soul Food Farm. When chefs from Chez Panisse first tasted Soul Food Farm’s pasture-raised eggs, they wanted to buy everything that farmer Alexis Koefoed’s hens would give her. When the Vacaville farm suffered a fire in 2009, supporters raised $35,000 to help Koefoed and her husband, Eric, recoup lost income and rebuild. And when Koefoed announced […]
Photo: The Chronicle On the Adriatic coast in Puglia, Italy – Matthew Accarrino’s family home – there’s a saying, “Little fish is good fish.” Anchovies, sardines and tiny branzini are a major part of the cuisine, says the chef of SPQR in San Francisco, and it’s these little fish that benefit best from the pickling […]
